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jhidalgo
PostPosted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:02 pm    Post subject: Cluster vulnerability - same ips will take it down Reply with quote

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In the past we had a problem with a cluster, a lot of variables were on the table, but after our investigation is seems like the following issue made it all happened:

We were using virtualization, with one FR and 3 PR, someone by mistake ran another instance of the FR server, and it came up with the same IP, by the time we detected this we took it down and change the IP, but from that moment the cluster started lossing messages until it was not working at all.

So now I think this situation made the QMs register into the wrong FR and then these QMs kept sending messages to the FR without switching to the real FR.

Does MQ have a mechanism to correct inconsistencies on the fly ?, do I need to restart QMs if the FR change somehow ?

Thanks.
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mvic
PostPosted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:35 pm    Post subject: Re: Cluster vulnerability - same ips will take it down Reply with quote

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jhidalgo wrote:
We were using virtualization, with one FR and 3 PR

If you don't mind, could I ask for more details on this - what does "using virtualization" consist of in your scenario precisely?

jhidalgo wrote:
Does MQ have a mechanism to correct inconsistencies on the fly ?, do I need to restart QMs if the FR change somehow ?

Have you fixed it now? If not, call IBM support.

If this happens again in the future (but please make every effort to prevent it from happening!), call IBM support as soon as possible to give them and you the best chance of working everything out.
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HubertKleinmanns
PostPosted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 12:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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jhidalgo,

it is possible to migrate repositories and this is well-described in the cluster manual (see "Cluster tasks"). Important issue: Each FR must have manual cluster channel definitions to each other FR. In this case each FR should have the same information.

To migrate the (accidentially created) second repository see the document "WebSphere MQ Queue Manager Clusters".
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fjb_saper
PostPosted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 3:00 am    Post subject: Re: Cluster vulnerability - same ips will take it down Reply with quote

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jhidalgo wrote:
In the past we had a problem with a cluster, a lot of variables were on the table, but after our investigation is seems like the following issue made it all happened:

We were using virtualization, with one FR and 3 PR, someone by mistake ran another instance of the FR server, and it came up with the same IP, by the time we detected this we took it down and change the IP, but from that moment the cluster started lossing messages until it was not working at all.

So now I think this situation made the QMs register into the wrong FR and then these QMs kept sending messages to the FR without switching to the real FR.

Does MQ have a mechanism to correct inconsistencies on the fly ?, do I need to restart QMs if the FR change somehow ?

Thanks.


Which inconsistencies?

The foolishness of running the same image in a different virtual machine?

If that did not get your attention think about the next one:
You now have 2 qmgrs with the SAME NAME in the cluster...


says this is a NO NO.

This is your real problem. The ip problem was just masking it...

Enjoy
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PeterPotkay
PostPosted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 10:57 am    Post subject: Re: Cluster vulnerability - same ips will take it down Reply with quote

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fjb_saper wrote:
If that did not get your attention think about the next one:
You now have 2 qmgrs with the SAME NAME in the cluster...


and with no way to eject it with RESET CLUSTER because both have the exact same QMID! IF you manually created a new QM with the same name at least the duplicate QM would have a new QMID. But you're clone has the exact same one.
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